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Final account.

Succession of j. M In District Court.
Welchel, deceased. Bossier Parish, La
Whereas, Horace Neeson, curator, has
w this day filed his final account in
above succession, notice is hereby given that
any opposition to the same must be filed in
the Clerks Office within the time prescribed
by law, or the same will be homologated and
made the Judgment of the Court.
Witness my hand and official seal, this 9th
day Of June, 1887.
A. r THOMPSON,
Clerk Bossier District Court.
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~ and call on Messrs.
I)resfuss & Son, Shreveport,
q, ,uring and summer goods.
IN rive you satisfaction in
hand prices.
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Nrs Academy, Prof. A. j.
Principal, has just closed q
satisfactory aud successful
snd this fact is very graft
eall friends Of education in
annuity.
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We have just heard that Mr.. Car
rigan, Of Colliusburg, committed
suicide by cutting bis throat, at
Shreveport yesterday.
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SOUTHERN CULTIvATOR
AND
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4 The greatest wonders Of
The remarkable low prices
vshiag offered for sale BY
I.Iia, a. Jacobs, agent.
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~ viii add more to the gen.
noerity Of the parish than
.Aools-good public schools.
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Three citizens Of this parish have
committed suicide within tho past
six mouths.
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|,..das and Thursday claim
..sof The days Of this month
=, can't think Of anything
!. csll and pay for your pa
/ i spleudid recreation.

]. Mobley, Coroner Of
II. has rendered his resig-
!, ne Governor of the State.
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Also drew the following thirty
names of persons qualified to serve
as Jurors for the second week of
said term OF Court, commencing on
Monday, August 10, A. D., 1887, viz
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WHAT rs SAID AB0UT Us.

The contents are invariably the choicest
class OF reading. Canadian Statesmun
Wecan commend this magazine to the pub
lic- Richmond Daily Wing.
For family reading this magazine ia admira-
bly, adapted. - Canadian Presbyterian
The magazine improves with each number.
The Interior, Chicago.
For delightful, edifying and instructive
reading, this magazine is not excelled by any
of its e0ntemporaries.--Q nebec Mornimg
Chronicle
Rare taste is exhibited in its get-up, having
reading matter both instructive and entertain
ing. - Christian Neighbor, Columbia, g. O.
This magazine is one of the cleanest and
brightest published Steuben uille 70 Gasette
Each issue of the magazine increases its
popularity Providence r. r. Press
Certainly the best publication OF It's kind
that we see--Norh Carolina Presbyterion.
Wilmington, ~. @.
Sold by all newsdealers. Single copy, IS
cents; 81 so year. Specimen copy, 10 cents.
Mrs FRANK LESLIE, Publisher.
SO, SIS and So Park Place, New York
| july I
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FRANK LESLIE,S
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The Voice of the Press, without distinction
of Creed or Church, pronounces
this Monthly
admirably Adapted for Family Heading,
And comlnends it to the Christian Public AZ
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IT'S contents are of the most varied and at
tractive character, furnishing just such
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and can enjoy during the week
No other publication Of the kind affords
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Queen and Crescent Route.
vicksburg, shreveport and
Pacific Railroad.

SOLID TRAINS
Between Shreveport and Cincinnati,
With Mann Boudoir Cars from Vicksburg
CONDENSED TINE TABLETS EFFECT APRIL
"a 1887
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-..;oe. blackberries and red
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For sale by DR.. W. J. Mobley.
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NH rain for the crops.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-16
The Beginning OF a Fortune.


A man standing in front of the Palmer
house, who said he was worth $40, 600,
and who looked it, told me the following
story: "Shortly after the last presidential
election l lost everything I had in the
world and determined to go just as far
into the mountains of Colorado as could
with the little loose change had and hire
myself as a miner. went as far into the
northwest part of the state as the rail
roads would take me, and then spent my
last IS to go thirty miles further in q
stage, and then walked ten miles further
with nothing to eat and not q cent of
money, though the snow was flying. /
yas making for digging called Fly
Trap gulch. / was in desperate state
of mind, for it wasn't at all certain that
would get work there. At last the smoke
of the camp came in view, and sat down
to think what would do. I remembered
that had q copy of a newspaper In my
pocket and that it contained the news of
Cleveland's election. soon laid my
plans. took the paper out of my pocket,
partly unfolded it, clapped it under my
arm and ran into the camp shouting at
the top of my voice, "Full account of
Cleveland's election II a thunderbolt
had Lit in the camp there couldn't have
been greater excitement. In two minutes
1 had twenty miners around me, and there
was almost O fight among them MS to who
should buy my paper at SO. That money
kept me alive for two or three days until
one of the miners was suddenly called
away and got his place. Then one thing
led to another until got to specializing
and made about 100000 Chicago
journal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-16
WIrH a DOZEN BRANCHES.

Some sof the London banks have de-
posits Of 500, 600, 900 and $3.50, 600 600,
but this is The total of deposits of the main
bank in the "City OF London of its
dozen or more of branches In Charger
London" and it's thirty or forty country
branches, SO that to compare the deposits
of the largest London banks with those of
the largest New York banks would hardly
be fair, unless you added to the deposits
of the New York banks the deposits of
all their correspondent banks.
The principal of subsidiary branches is
carried through many other businesses.
Some OF the clothing and furnishing
houses, the grocers and provision dealers,
tea merchants, fruit stores, dyers and
cleaners, restaurants, booksellers and sta
TONERS have from six to twenty branch
establishments. Oftentimes you find two
or three shops on the same street belong
ing to the same firm. 1t is said that O,
shop on any of the main thoroughfares in
London can afford to cheat every Gus
toner, because the crowd of strangers
passing the door win continue to furnish
new victims year after, year: It may be
: that experience proves that when the
number OF people passing is SO great that
the opening of one or two new shops in
the same street by the same firm does not
affect the business of the old house. But
many old firms cling to the old and often
dingy premises long after they have OUT
grown them, Age in London is the great
badge of responsibility. 'Old estab-
lished," Business established over fifty
years." or lone hundred years." is seen
in shop fronts almost rs often as t'To the
Queen" "Patronized by the Royal Fam
. ily." For this reason you find some Of
the largest firms in the city in the little
alleys, lanes or courts, where they first
started.-London Cor. Philadelphia Times
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-16
Fennxson and HI. Trees.

Isaw the poet to che best advantage,
under his own trees and walking over his
own domain He took delight in pointing
out to me the finest and rarest of his trees
and there were many beauties among
them. recall my visit TO Whittier at
Oak Knoll, in Danvers, a little more than
year ago, when he led me to one of his
favorites, an aspiring evergreen, which
shot up like a flame. thought of the
graceful American elms In front of Long
fellows house, and The sturdy English
Gins that stand in front of Lowelrs. In
this garden Of England, the Isle of Wight,
where everything grows with such lavish
extravaganza of greenness that It seems
as II it must bankrupt the soil before
autumn, felt as il weary eyes and over
tasked brains might reach their happiest
haven Of rest-Dr, Holmes in The At
tantie.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-16

ABOUT ali the damage done. ! had an en-
thusiashc supporter in my work in the
person of Admiral Melancthon Smith, who
commanded the Union ironclads, but he
was removed to another sphere OF useful
ness just prior to the openingo of the canal.
Having properly mined the bulkhead, on
Dec. % blew it up, and in twenty
four hours there were three feet OF water
running through the gap. In twenty four
hours more, by dredging, could have run
an ironclad through. At that hour
stopped work, and the country and press
rang with the report of Buffers failure at
Dutch Gap canal. / couldn't tell then,
but / can tell now. After opened the
hole the man who succeeded Admiral
Smith wrote me a letter. hin which he
said: For Gods sake don't let the rebel
lion ironclads down upon u.s. have got
that letter. am not in the habit Of de-
stroying documents. But what could I
dor I couldn't say then that our feet
was afraid of the enemy. What would
have been said of me if had done so2
"But let me say that on Jan. 0,
1865, the enemy's ifonclads came, out Of
French creek when the water was high,
and drove our ironclads 80 fast that they
didn't wait even to open the draw in the
pontoon bridges, but crashed through
them, and they, in my judgment, wouldn't
have stopped until they reached Fortress
Monroe but for the fact that one of the
cnemy's vessels got ashore and the rest OF
the fleet was delayed SO long In assisting
her that the water began to fall, and they
returned unframed. AS for that naval
officer, whose name won't give you, but
you can read it in the history of the coun-
try, he was court martialed, found guilty
of cowardice, and ordered to be dismissed
from the service. The order would have
been carried out, but it never was up
proved by the secretary of the navy. Now,
let HE say that Dutch Gap is the only way
to get to Richmond by the James river.
French creek has grown up with grass.
1t is the only nook that has ever been of
any earthly use to humanity, and to-day
is benefit to navigation of the James. !"
Boston Globe. ..--.. 49,.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-16

w ,-,,ve ,alIs STONE Is taken Is SAID 10 pc q
most wonderful and magnificent forma-
ton. It is called q quartzite granite, soft
when quarried and easily sawn out, but
hardening into mass fiinty and indies
tructible and non absorbent. 1t is pro-
nounced by experts q perfect paving
stone. But the strangest thing about IL is
the formation from which ie is taken.
This is found about two feet under the
prairie soil surrounding Sioux, Falls for,
miles and miles, and when the thin soil,
with its stunted growth of grass, is strip
ped off, there lies the rock, as smooth
and level as q floor. The tract contains
something like thirty square miles, and
the deposit is several hundred feet thick.
Through the center of the tract, runs the
Big Sioux river, whose channel h merely
O rift in the rock-a crack formed by the
partial splitting OF the whole mass. The
channel is in shape just like a letter v,
and the surface of the deposit extends
back for several miles precisely at right
angles with, the sides of the creyice.--.
Chicago Herald. $3.50:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-16
Tho Schools Of Europe.

Iu0 ScnOOlS VI EUROPE
The Paris Figaro gives some interesting
statistics on schools In Europe. In Russia
there are 81, 600 schools, having each an
average of 30 scholars. This is one school
for 2, 800 inhabitants. at cost of less than
q halfpenny hcad of the population. In
Austria, with 81, OO0, 900 inhabitants, there
are 29, 900 schools and 5000, 600 scholars.
The average number at each school Is 104,
and the cost per inhabitant I'D. In
Italy, for %, OOO, 900 inhabitants there are
1900 schools, one school for every GOO
people, at q cost of I'D. head. The
average number of pupils at the schools is
40. In SpBin there are 5000, 900 scholars,
90, 600 schools, giving an average of SO in
each school and one school for every 600
inhabitants, as in Italy. The school bill
comes to is. I'd. head. The number Of
schools given for England is 81, 900, which
is one for every COO inhabitants, with an
average attendance of 30 per school, and .
cost of Is. Cd. per head. The Germans
have school for every 200, giving total
of CO, 600 schools, with 100 pupils in each,
and Is. I'd. per inhabitant. France has
n, 900 schools, being one for every 500.
with GO in each school. France would,
therefore, seem to have more schools than
any other great European country. These
schools cost the country Is. I'D. per in
habitant.--New York Times. ~.'.-t
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-16
THE DUTCH GAP CANAL.

Cen. Butler Tells Its History Mt the lie.
union of the Sixth Massachusetts,.
After song by the quartet, Col. Jones
asked Gen. Butler to give his old comrades
a history of the Dutch Gap canal. The
general complied, and his explanation,
never before made, was listened to with
intense interest by all. He said: 'The
army of the James lay on Sept. IL, 1864,
along the outer lines of Richmond, occu-
pying q portion of the line of the main
army under Grant We could not adj
vance, because the enemy had control OF
James river, and If the army passed in
the rear of the forts the Confederate IRON
clads would have every advantage of at
lacking them in the rear. French creek
makes a detour of seven miles and returns
again to q point where it is only 435 feet
from water to water, and this is bluff
sixty feet high. / had consultation with
Gen. Grant and his chief engineer. l said
II we could get our ironclads to drive the
enemy's fleet up the river the army could
follow, but as the river was but seven
feet deep around this seven mile detour,
and the ironclads drew fifteen or sixteen
feet, 1t was not possible to get them
arouad, I then suggested the cut, which
was known as Butch Gap; if it were made
we could get twenty-one feet Of water
above and below the bend. Gen. Grant
agreed, and gave me the services OF his
engineer. So, while one OF Buffers fail
ures, It was NOT one OF his misjudgments,
as it was ordered by Grant.
"The work was at once begun, and on
Christmas day OF 1864 1t was completed,
except about twenty-five feet, which
formed O bulkhead between the water on
either side. During the process OF exca.
walton the enemy threw at least 81, O00
shells at us. The canal was TO DO ninety
| feet across the bottom and an average
depth Of twenty-five feet. During the
digging had hole made in the bank
and two men stationed on the bluffs above,
| and when mortar shell would rise from
the enemy's fleet they would shout
iShellr and all would run for the holes
and remain until the shell exploded.
| There was one mule killed, believe, and
N army Magpn desroyea. ans snAs wa
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-16
Mary Ander.on's Every Day M

MARY An0erSOne Every lay mok0 Ops
One thing in particular struck me about
Miss Anderson at the time, and that was
the fact of her being less like an actress
than any one have ever met In the the
atrieal profession. She was almost en-
tirely devoid of the stage s.make up that
Is used to such excessive extent by profess
SIGNALS. Her pretty, graceful, clinging
robe, with its low corsage, was ablaze
with diamonds about the neck and shoul-
ders, and her slim fingers sparkled with
jewels and she had way, remember, of
running one hand through her loose,
waving brown hair, that fell in curling
ringlets about her shoulders.
She was quite unlike the Mary Ander-
son with which the theatrical world
that is, the part that constitutes an audi
ence-is familiar. Standing beside her
this very same night was a very ardent
admirer and intimate friend of Miss An
derson, from whom have heard much Of
the latter's character and personal at
tributes since, and much that ] have
heard enhances an opinion that have
long held, that all professional people,
whether actors, artists or authors, lead
two distinct lives-the one for the public,
the other for themselves and their friends.
Since have known Miss Anderson have
met many of her friends, and there is not
one who will say that this beautiful
actress Is as cold as she is invariably rep
resented to be by discriminating public.
How little the public really knows,
though, after al.-Lond0n Cor. Boston
Herald.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-16
4, Closed with the Police Lock,

"Found open-door of store No. -
street; closed with the police lock-" is
an every day entry on the morning re-
turns sent to police headquarters.
els it some kind of padlockE' asked
reporter of Superintendent Murray.
The superintendent laughed. mo-" he
said, ut is not lock ut all; it is a board
When policeman finds door unlocked
he nails cleat on the floor inside, cuts a
piece of board long enough to drop in
under the handle when he pulls it shut,
and the door is cffectually barred. You
would need q catering ram to open 1t.
How the owner gets in next day is his
lookout. That is the police lock-
Having made the place safe the officer
reports what he has done ut the station
house. Ii the sergeant is on his long tour
and feels cross he lays back till the small
hours of the morning when the store
keeper Is in his soundest sleep i'm Harlem
and Morrisania, and then telegraphs to
the station nearest his home to send him
down forthwith. When he comes down,
blowing like u porpoise, thinking that tho
store has been burned mp or cleaned out
by thieves, he Is told to 60 and lock
his door. Once sergeant of that kind
met his match in Harlem tobacconist.
He sent word down from his house in
answer to the message, "Just leave IL
open. I'll take chances.''
He had been there before.
When the Coney Island season begins
and spry clerks are I'm hurry to get away
with their girls, safe doors are sometimes
found open at night in down town sto-es.
The gas light burning ut the safe so that
the policeman may see it from tho outside
betrays them. If it does not burn the
storekeeper is sent for. When the nights
get warm, too, the bank Waterman 'sjust
steps around the Corner for. q drink,
leaving the bank unguarded. The one in
the Bank OF the Metropolis, i'm Union
square, did that two years ago, stepping
out of the wiIAlow ut midnight, and re-
turned IN hour later to find every officer
of the bank, from the president down, in
his seat awaiting him, and half dozen Of
Capt. Williams police officers on the
steps. One Of them had found the win
dow open and given the alarm. That was
the last drink that Waterman ever took.
He swore off then and there as the con-
dition Of his being given another chance,
and he kept the pledge.-New York Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-16
Pepper and Pepper.

Take some ground pepper, the pure
quill. and place it III the caster for few
weeks. At the end of that time 60 to
your grocer AID purchase some of the
finest selected Singapore or Sumatra pep
per. You can get trusted for it, IL you
are Northumberland will not affect my ar
gument-but get in some way. Then Just
before dinner have O portion of this
ground, and II you don't say that there is
pepper and pepper, I will give up stroll
ing: You will discover most delicious
and appetizing aroma from the freshly
ground spice that will linger on your beef
steak or roast and I'LL It with taste that
you never knew before unless you have
eaten food served with freshly ground
pepper. You will never again, mark my
word, say that pepper and salt are the
same everywhere, after having a meal
served with the newly ground and stale
pepper.-Toledo Sunday Journal. =
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-16
Had Seen tile Wrap Before.

eyes, said prominent retail dealer I'm
articles Of feminine adornment, "we ex-
pect to have a number of wraps, hornets,
ETC., returned to-day. You know we, like
the rest of the big shopkeepers, send
things home on approval to people we
know, and I'm afraid good many people
take advantage of this method by secur-
ing elaborate pieces of wearing apparel
for special occasions at no cost to them
selves, wearing the article once, you
know, and then returning. have here o
$40 spring wrap which west Arch street
lady will have to pay for. She had it
sent home Saturday, and this morning it
came back, but we will not credit her
with it. Why? Because was taking a
promenade on Walnut street yesterday
and walked three blocks right behind that
wrap. "-Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-16
Dust In the storss.

While they are advocating the laying of
the stores. Every. afternoon, between 5
and 8 O'Clock, the floors are swept and the
clerks breathe an atmosphere of dust that
is sometimes frightful and always un-
pleasant. II Is just the hour of the day
when sweeping should not be done, as the
employees are exhausted after the days
work, the air Is close and dry, and the
heat great, for there Is not much ventila-
zion In large store. No matter If the
floor Is sprinkled, q cloud of dust always
flies up and settles upon the counters.
Often the man who sweeps out wears o
sponge over his mouth and nose to pre-.
vent coughing. Lady Clerk In Globe.
Democrat. 49,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-16
,,,,oo ,,id fasbioned Car- .

The old fashion of boiling coffee and clearing
it with egg is still popular with some house
wives. The advantages Of this method are
that the coffee is perfectly clear; peculiar
flavor, very agreeable to many coffee drink
ers, is impaired by the egg, and when milk or
cream Is added the coffee turns rich yellow
color, very inviting and not seen IN coffee
made without egg.